The theater of street is a form of Spectacle and theatrical representation carried out in an external public space. In theory, the artists playing in the street play with the street, use it as decoration and include in their service the impulses coming from outside.

Most of the time the spectacles of street are free for the public. The place of their representation can be in any public space, including shopping malls, carparks etc They are generally organized in external spaces where there can there be a great number of spectators. The actors of the theater of street go from the simple jugglers to the companies of theater, dance, music made up. There exist many troops and tens of specialized festivals in this type of Article.

The troops are often remunerated by the municipality or another cultural structure which organizes a festival, an exposure or a procession, but of many interpreters of theater of street are paid only by making the sleeve or while passing the hat after their service to collect some currency of the public.

The logistics of the theater of street imposes simple costumes and decorations, and generally there is little or not material of amplification of the sound. However, of many troops (such as the Company off , the Company Oposito, Royal of Luxury, 26000 Covers or the Theater of the unit for example) developed the shapes of spectacles innovative and complex, technically demanding, and were equipped consequently or ask the organizers to provide them the hardware requirement.

Festivals of street

• the Hang-Hearts - France (Angers), every years at the beginning of September.

• Festival of Aurillac - France (Aurillac), the every years in August.
• Short in the Grass - France (Saint-Maur-of-Ditches), every years mid-June.
• Trawl-net in the Street - France (Chalon-sur-Saône), the every years in July.
• FAR (Morlaix)

• the Spring of the streets - France (Paris), the every years in May since 1997.
• the festival of Rablay - France (Rablay-on-Tailboard in Maine-et-Loire), every years, two days the weekend of Pentecost. Mixed festival: theater, music, song…
• Viva Festival Quoted - France (Sotteville-the-Rouen), every years at the end of June
• Fallen the Night - France (Rennes), the every years in July
• Street of the Circus - France (AJACCIO and neighborhood), every years mid-July organized by CirKostard (cirkomirna@wanadoo.fr)
• Urbaka - France (Limoges), every years at the end of June
• Festival TUMULTS - France - the Vigneux-on-Seine (91) the every years in June - organized by the Constellation. http://www.tumultes.com
• Fest' arts - France Libourne every years, in August official site of Fest' arts

Professional structures

• HorsLesMurs, Center of resource for arts of the street and arts of the track
• Public places, National center of creation
• In situ, European Network for artistic creation in public space
• the Federation, Professional association of arts of the street
• Karwan, diffusion and Development pole of arts of the street and arts of the circus

Formations

• Master 2 professional Cultural projects in Public space, University Paris I Pantheon-Sorbonne

• the FAIAR (Advanced and Itinerant Formation of Arts of the Street), Marseilles

See too

• Live performance
• Boussadia